"In this talk, we'll discuss where software engineering went wrong, and build the case that disciplined Agile methods, far from being "anti-engineering" (as they are often described), actually represent the best of engineering principles applied to the task of software development."

Denis Simonets and the Swiss Pirate Party have
given Wikileaks a new home online
using their wikileaks.ch domain this morning, after the DNS provider decided to drop service for Wikileak's .ORG domain from its servers.

The Alpha project
at CERN
was able to trap 38 antihydrogen atoms in a vacuum for more than a tenth of a second and up to one sixth of a second. Given they had to fiddle with 10 million antiprotons and 700 million positrons in order to get there, I'm wondering how many petabytes of data they collected in the process.

Of course, I'm also wondering what will eventually come from this research. Driving a car for 100 thousand years on a kilogram of sugar would be cool ;-) ...then again, at the rate we use up natural resources, there would be not much left of the universe in no time.

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